January 16, 2014 - The C.D. Howe Institute has appointed Professor Steve Ambler as the holder of the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy.
As the David Dodge Chair, Dr. Ambler will play a central role in Canada's leading independent program for monetary policy research. "Steve Ambler is one of Canada's foremost thinkers on macroeconomic and monetary policy. He has served on the C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council since 2011, and we are delighted to have him as the David Dodge Chair," commented William Robson, the Institute's President and CEO.
Ambler, a Professor of Economics at l'École des sciences de la gestion de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM), is succeeding the inaugural chairholder, McGill University's Christopher Ragan, who was appointed to the position in 2010.
"Chris Ragan was an outstanding chairholder and a great colleague - he nurtured our monetary policy program, and authored a series of influential studies and op-eds in this key policy area," said Robson.
The Chair is named in honour of former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge. It was created to meet the demand for monetary policy research from senior levels of government, the public service, private sector leaders, and media.
Ambler holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
He has taught in the Département des sciences économiques at ESG UQAM since 1985, and has chaired the Department since 2012.
Ambler has held visiting positions at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the European University Institute and the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna.
He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
He is a past president of the Société canadienne de science économique (1998-1999). He has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics (1992-1995) and of Canadian Public Policy (1998-2003). He was on secondment to the Bank of Canada as Special Adviser from September 2006 to July 2007.
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association from 2007 to 2012. He is also a senior fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.
In 2010, Canada's financial services sector pledged a $1.725 million endowment to support monetary policy research at the Institute.
For more information contact Finn Poschmann, Vice-President, Research at the C.D. Howe Institute, 416-865-1904, email: cdhowe@cdhowe.org.
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